I admit it – the chaos of the holiday season, especially Cyber Monday, got us a bit distracted from our biweekly “Talking With…” profiles.  But we’re bringing back the series with a bang, featuring Mitch Joel, the president of digital marketing agency Twist Image and an active member of the Shop.org community. Mitch offers some [...]

In the constant push-and-pull between retailers and manufacturers, we thought it might be interesting for our next Talking With… to feature an executive from a company with both groups under the same umbrella. So we reached out to Matt Rubel, Chairman, CEO and President of Collective Brands, a company that includes both a retailer [...]

Before the start of the Shop.org networking receptions this evening, I had a chance to sit down with Susan Lyne, the CEO of Gilt Groupe. It was the most insightful, fun twenty minutes I had all day. During our conversation, Susan talked about why the site is so addictive to shoppers, how retail is just [...]

After profiling retail executives and solution providers in our Talking With… series over the last several months, we decided to reach out to someone in retail who isn’t often on the receiving end of questions. Jayne O’Donnell, retail reporter at USA Today and co-author of a new book, Gen BuY: How Tweens, Teens and Twentysomethings [...]

Usually our “Talking With…” series happens every other week, but I was so excited to share insights from this retail executive I talked Scott Silverman into letting me publish a special edition (hopefully you don’t mind!).
This week, we’re “Talking With…” Terry Lundgren, who started his career as a trainee with Bullock’s department stores in [...]